The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
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  • Published: 1 February 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099511113
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $18.99

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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'The perfect novel' Kate Atkinson


'The perfect novel' Kate Atkinson, #1 bestselling author of Big Sky
Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken, dangerous Pap, and Jim is a runaway slave longing to be reunited with his family. Flung together by circumstance, they journey down the Mississippi together on a log raft, each in search of his own definition of freedom. Their daring adventures along the way provide both entertainment and a satirical look at the moral values of the Deep South of the 1800s.
  • Published: 1 February 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099511113
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $18.99
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Mark Twain

Mark Twain's real name was Sam Clemens, and he was born in 1835 in a small town on the Mississippi, one of seven children. He smoked cigars at the age of eight, and aged nine he stowed away on a steamboat. He left school at 11 and worked at a grocery store, a bookstore, a blacksmith's and a newspaper, where he was allowed to write his own stories (not all of them true). He then worked on a steamboat, where he got the name 'Mark Twain' (from the call given by the boat's pilot when their boat is in safe waters). Eventually he turned to journalism again, travelled round the world, and began writing books which became very popular. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are his most famous novels. He poured the money he earned from writing into new business ventures and crazy inventions, such as a clamp to stop babies throwing off their bed covers, a new boardgame, and a hand grenade full of extinguishing liquid to throw on a fire. With his shock of white hair and trademark white suit Mark Twain became the most famous American writer in the world. He died in 1910.

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Praise for The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

It is Huck who gives the book style. The River gives the book its form. But for the River, the book might be only a sequence of adventures with a happy ending. A river, a very big and powerful river, is the only natural force that can wholly determine the course of human peregrination.... Thus the River makes the book a great book... Mark Twain is a native, and the River God is his God

T.S. Eliot

I believe that Huckleberry Finn is one of the great masterpieces of the world

H.L. Mencken

Huckleberry Finn took the first journey back. His eyes were the first eyes that ever looked at us objectively that were not eyes from overseas... he wanted to find out about men and how they lived together. And because he turned back we have him forever

F. Scott Fitzgerald

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn...There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since

Ernest Hemingway

The quintessential American novel

Guardian

The invention of this language, with all its implications, gave a new dimension to our literature. It is a language capable of poetry

Robert Penn Warren

Running all through the book is the sharpest satire on the ante-bellum estimate of the slave

San Francisco Chronicle
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